[mythtv] RAMDISK

Robert Kulagowski mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Mon, 4 Nov 2002 09:51:00 -0600


 
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> > Did some quick calculations; 30 seconds of buffering at 3300Kbps
> > would require 12-13 megabytes of DRAM.
> Too complicated to do properly

Right, I was just thinking that something like the RAMDISK would help
smooth out any jitters related to I/O starvation through the hard
drive.  You're right that if the reader and writer got too far out of
sync you'd get stuck in the continuous reading from hard drive case.

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